St. Antony’s Cave

I grew up when the marks of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod were the “L’s”. Lutheran Layman’s League, Lutheran Women’s Missionary League, and Aid Association for Lutherans. You saw these “L’s” and you knew you were home where to steal from Garrison Keillor, “all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.” I was asked recently what I thought about the above named offering from the Lutheran Hour Ministries.  In a word: you know how video killed the radio star? It’s going to slaughter theology. Continue reading →

It’s baack, and you’d sooner have a poltergeist than this spirit. I’ve predicted for over 20 years that the Charismatic Movement that disrupted Christendom from circa 1965 – 1980 would be back. It was driven to the Side-Show Bob of Televangelism where it self-destructed in their opulent, decadent, and bizarre lifestyles. Then Joel Osteen picks up the mantle and succeeds by only being Pentecostal in private while preaching the health, wealth, success, and happiness that he has can be yours. But as Paul says, he seeks you only so that you will seek him all the more (Galatians 4: 17). Continue reading →

Crosspoint Church, Georgetown, Texas is my third outing to a Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod church. At the following link you can view the one I attended on 23 April 2023: https://crosspointgtx.wpengine.com/liveworship/ . But if you want to know where the service and sermon originated. Go to this link: https://national.cc/about. Of if you want the original sermons go here https://national.cc/media/win-the-day . As with the other two, I came away from this ‘experience’ drained, depressed, defeated, and unimpressed. These folks are winning the day because it’s really a preaching of American Civil Religion. But with Shania Twain’s 1997 hit I say, “that don’t impress me much.” Continue reading →